Housed within the lobby of a popular shopping centre in Colombo, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art is the sole museum in the country focused on displaying and creating public engagement for Sri Lankan contemporary art
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It was the bald head that became the avatar of a million dreamy rebellions; the shaved pate that bridged the gap between the angry and the sublime. It is almost impossible to think about Sinead O’Connor, the Irish singer whose death was…
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The Sri Lankan government is once again in the eye of the storm for the arrest of comedian Nathasha Edirisooriya over a joke about Buddhism using the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Act, the very mechanism…
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On Christmas Day 1990, hikers found the body of a young woman hidden under a rug and wrapped in blankets in a park in the Netherlands, not far from the Belgian border
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As many Palestinians move away from the culinary traditions that have been a cornerstone of their culture, family matriarchs say they feel compelled to pass down their family’s kitchen secrets
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Air raid sirens blared in the capital, but strikes did not land. A recorded concert played in a bomb shelter. And at a golden-domed monastery, a solemn ceremony honoured soldiers and prayed for their victory
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By Raveen Sugantharaj  “Where are you from?” is the question that has plagued my existence, the one that causes my stomach to drop yet that I have become accustomed to, the one that leaves me scrambling for an appropriate answer — both…
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On this day around the year 270 AD, Valentine, a holy priest in Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius II, was executed. Under the rule of Claudius the Cruel, Rome was involved in many unpopular and bloody campaigns. The emperor had to…
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